NFL Europa's dead!

Now this: In news that will please both Krusty the clown AND Mark Cuban, the NFL's spring developmental league NFL Europa is on life support. With the league basically becoming German only (1 of the 6 teams calls Amsterdam home) and losing money, (1 million this year) an outside consulting team will be brought in to analyze the feasibility of continuing this deal. The answer is expected to be no. The money is not that big of an issue. At the heart of the matter, is the development of undrafted players particularly, the QB position. In the mid to late 1990's, college QB's weren't throwing the ball as much, so they needed the reps, but from 1999 on, the "spread" passing offense came into vogue, and now these cats are all a lil' bit more advanced in said development. This bodes well for the new football league that Mark Cuban is a part of, as 250 more decent players will be available. XFL and USFL aside, I still believe a spring league would be the move (the new league will play a fall schedule) from a ratings standpoint, as football crushes just about anything it goes against. I think that Cubes and the UFL guys want players to "make a decision", not to use their league in the spring to get to the NFL in the fall, which does have some merit. This will also help the new league to get big name veterans that get squeezed by the NFL. In the end, by merger or attrition, the NFL always wins these battles, but Cuban and co. can maybe hope to get one or two NFL franchises out of it. Los Angeles and Las Vegas maybe?